Everyone believes the heroine is the powerless daughter of a disgraced family. After being betrayed and publicly cast aside, she begins quietly dismantling the people responsible—but they don't realize the woman they humiliated is connected to a powerful legacy they've spent years trying to find.

Five years ago, Alpha Kian Vasquez rejected her in front of two hundred wolves.Selene Marsh was an Omega's daughter who had just found the mate bond she'd waited for her whole life. He called her too weak to be his Luna and tore the bond apart before the entire pack.Now she's Beta of the Wildmoor Pack: feared, respected, untouchable. Until her Alpha sends her to negotiate a border dispute with Ashwood, and she walks into a room with the man who broke her.Kian is older, colder, and hollowed out by the bond he threw away. He isn't asking for forgiveness. He's asking for a chance to earn it.But Selene has no plans to give it. And with a dangerous faction stirring behind the border tensions, the two of them may have to fight side by side whether she likes it or not.Some things don't come back just because you finally want them to. But some bonds refuse to stay broken.